That's no excuse. If he has a boat and so many kids, then he should just make the kids push the boat around while he drives next to them in his two-seater hybrid yelling at them to put their backs into it.
And this is where my dislike for big pharma comes into play.
Where is the profit? To understand any business, you have to recognize the source of profit. For drug companies, the profit is in treatments, not cures, not vaccines. So most of the research money goes into treatments for things that will produce a heavy profit, and keeps you on their treatments. What's the point in producing a $50 one-time shot that will fix your ills if they can instead get you on a $200-a-month pill regimen that comes with some side effects that you'll want to take another set of pills for? A strategy like this, combined with thousands of ads telling you to ask your doctor about who knows what, combined with essentially bribing doctors to prescribe their pill for every little thing, and you have yourself a lot of profit. Even if you have somebody working on a cure for AIDS or cancer in these companies, they're not as well funded as somebody working on the newest E.D. pill or or the latest made-up condition.
I know people who have worked in non-profit medical research, the kind of people who want an actual cure for things, but they just can't compete with the budgets of companies practically printing their own money. Public grants and donations just can't produce the kind of miracle drugs that we desperately need.
I don't get the tone of the submission. First it seems like they're calling the company irresponsible (and it certainly sounds as if they are), but then they seem to be blaming the "test victims" for joining the study, and then they make some rather outrageous predictions. Whoever submitted this article, take a deep breath, try to calm yourself down, and understand that situations like this are rare. And drug companies aren't going to start using prisoners and whatnot for test subjects. I don't really like big pharma either, but I'm not that paranoid. You know, I bet they have a great pill for that... (kidding of course)
I simply refuse to play any sort of FPS on a console. I need my keyboard and mouse. And so many other games that I like to play just don't translate at all to consoles. Can you imagine Civ IV on an Xbox?
I don't know of many snakes that hurtle themselves at many times the speed of sound from high Earth orbit to the ground. What happens when the outer layer of tiles gets damaged and starts shedding? My guess would be quite a bit of damage to the inner layer. The heat shield is just fine the way it is.
Yeah, pretty much they've been buying their way into technological advancement. How do you think they've been modernizing their military? Heavy use of espionage and buying up hardware on the black market to reverse engineer it.
Keeping in mind that the first time I've heard about MECOs was from reading the article (yes, I actually did), it sounds like the energy to do that is generated by billions of particles winking in and out of existance at the center of the thing, which is also what keeps it all from collapsing.
Uh, in case you didn't notice, I said congress should let the ESRB do its job. Guess what the ESRB's job is to do? Rate games. Apparently I hit some sort of nerve by saying that congress should also let parents do their job. Well, you ignored 50% of what I said. Go back and reread my post and see if you still disagree. In any case, I'm all in favor of ratings, and giving parents as much information as they need. What I'm not in favor of is congress making it its issue of the week to try to win some elections in November.
Sure, one program can gobble up 8 cores. But could an email client? A word processor? A text editor? Sure, there may be some business applications requiring the level of parallelism you're suggseting, but presumably business software requiring vast amounts of CPU cycles aren't going to be running on your standard consumer desktop. That's what server farms are for, right?
The High Performance Computing market != the Desktop market.
Those running huge simulations and using far more than 2GB of RAM are not doing so on a desktop.
So your typical desktop user is running *NIX compilers all the time? Intel is talking about PC desktops, not workstations. Heck, the last time I did "make", it was through ssh to a quad-CPU server intended for multiple people to be doing just that. People compiling large programs and doing heavy rendering and whatnot are either doing it at work with heavy non-desktop equipment, or are very much in the minority doing it at their homes.
Right. An MMO server should have 8+ cores, not the player's computer.
And advanced AI is the only reason I can see for many many cores in a home desktop, but again, this is not your average user we're talking about, but a several-years-down-the-line-gamer.
Oh yeah, that aspect of it certainly didn't help. Twinking of alts was a big part of it as the server aged. But it got rather obvious that buying some materials or high-level epics was directly going towards gold sellers. Heck, just trying to ask for Runecloth in Ironforge would get you 10 different tells from people who didn't speak english well and were apparently selling hundreds of stacks of Runecloth.
Also, you ignore the fact that they withhold it from 50% of potential recipients as a control. If we accept your position (which I don't) then this is borderline Nazi twins trials stuff.
How is that different from giving a placebo to somebody who has given informed consent to try an experimental drug? It's perfectly standard to do this, because it's important to see if a treatment is actually effective or not. Somebody made a decision based on all available data that the potential risks of trying a new drug did not outweigh the potential benefits. And at the same time, if it's not known how much more effective the new treatment will be, they have to have a control.
Oh no, a rash. I bet I'll have to rub some lotion on it now. Oh why oh why couldn't they have let me die and spare me this terrible fate?
Transmission of hepatitis and HIV viruses
I can only assume these risks come from improper use of needles. I might be wrong, but if you're dealing with trained EMTs, there wouldn't be much cause for concern.
Unforeseen happenings
Standard legal coverage, whatever. The point is, all of their potential side effects are pretty weak compared to bleeding to death. Even the possible liver damage is minor compared to death. And remember that your normal blood transfusion comes with some rather serious risks as well (including, guess what, liver damage). You have to realize, all of those potential side effects are small probabilities, weighed against the enormous benefits (saving your life) that come with a higher probability. You can bet that some statistician took a look at the numbers before the trials began.
But if the end is "yay, I'm alive, not dead" and the means is "oh noes, I didn't tell them they could save my life even though I was unconscious", I'd say the ends justify the means. No?
There was some of that on my server, back when I played. But certainly not enough. It didn't take long before it was simply too dangerous to go into the farmer's territory. If you tried to tag mobs before they could kill them, they'd call in their farmer friends of the other faction to start killing you over and over.
Back when I played WoW, the server I was on was pretty much owned by gold farmers. They drove up the prices on everything, and unfortunately a lot of players just went along with it. People would buy in-game currency with real money to pay for things in the game sold by those selling the in-game money they got from those inflated sales. A vicious circle, but I guess some players felt it was worth it.
At least 64-bit chips let us address a lot more RAM, and everybody knows that programs are gobbling up more and more RAM these days. Millions of cores aren't quite as useful, at least for the time being, for your typical home PC.
I frequently run as many as 8 programs at a time, sometimes more, but I seriously doubt each program would know what to do with its own core. With my two-CPU set-up, I find RAM to be almost the biggest limiting factor (although with 2GB, I've never actually run out). There's really no need for 8 cores until my brain is able to take multitasking to the next level, doing many many complex tasks that would gain benefit from (essentially) unlimited CPU power for each program.
They say the biggest bottleneck of any modern computer is its user...
Yes, but before anything is tested on humans (consent or no), there has to be a reasonable expectation of a result as good as or better than traditional methods. And look, if you're unconsious and bleeding in the back of an ambulance, you're not "perfectly safe" to begin with. That's why you have to weigh the potential consequences.
And here I came to watch all the firefox fanbois have to swallow their pride and admit their favorite browser had a problem. Oh well, better luck next time hax0rs! And just for the record, I'm using firefox right now and think it's far better than the alternative, it's just that I like watching people squirm.
Still, what does this say about IE, that people are now using it to infect firefox? Is IE getting that unpopular now?
Slashdot Mirror
That's no excuse. If he has a boat and so many kids, then he should just make the kids push the boat around while he drives next to them in his two-seater hybrid yelling at them to put their backs into it.
And this is where my dislike for big pharma comes into play.
Where is the profit? To understand any business, you have to recognize the source of profit. For drug companies, the profit is in treatments, not cures, not vaccines. So most of the research money goes into treatments for things that will produce a heavy profit, and keeps you on their treatments. What's the point in producing a $50 one-time shot that will fix your ills if they can instead get you on a $200-a-month pill regimen that comes with some side effects that you'll want to take another set of pills for? A strategy like this, combined with thousands of ads telling you to ask your doctor about who knows what, combined with essentially bribing doctors to prescribe their pill for every little thing, and you have yourself a lot of profit. Even if you have somebody working on a cure for AIDS or cancer in these companies, they're not as well funded as somebody working on the newest E.D. pill or or the latest made-up condition.
I know people who have worked in non-profit medical research, the kind of people who want an actual cure for things, but they just can't compete with the budgets of companies practically printing their own money. Public grants and donations just can't produce the kind of miracle drugs that we desperately need.
I don't get the tone of the submission. First it seems like they're calling the company irresponsible (and it certainly sounds as if they are), but then they seem to be blaming the "test victims" for joining the study, and then they make some rather outrageous predictions. Whoever submitted this article, take a deep breath, try to calm yourself down, and understand that situations like this are rare. And drug companies aren't going to start using prisoners and whatnot for test subjects. I don't really like big pharma either, but I'm not that paranoid. You know, I bet they have a great pill for that... (kidding of course)
I simply refuse to play any sort of FPS on a console. I need my keyboard and mouse. And so many other games that I like to play just don't translate at all to consoles. Can you imagine Civ IV on an Xbox?
I don't know of many snakes that hurtle themselves at many times the speed of sound from high Earth orbit to the ground. What happens when the outer layer of tiles gets damaged and starts shedding? My guess would be quite a bit of damage to the inner layer. The heat shield is just fine the way it is.
Yeah, pretty much they've been buying their way into technological advancement. How do you think they've been modernizing their military? Heavy use of espionage and buying up hardware on the black market to reverse engineer it.
Isn't it exciting? What I like about science is that you never know when something new will come along and challenge everything you've known before.
Keeping in mind that the first time I've heard about MECOs was from reading the article (yes, I actually did), it sounds like the energy to do that is generated by billions of particles winking in and out of existance at the center of the thing, which is also what keeps it all from collapsing.
Uh, in case you didn't notice, I said congress should let the ESRB do its job. Guess what the ESRB's job is to do? Rate games. Apparently I hit some sort of nerve by saying that congress should also let parents do their job. Well, you ignored 50% of what I said. Go back and reread my post and see if you still disagree. In any case, I'm all in favor of ratings, and giving parents as much information as they need. What I'm not in favor of is congress making it its issue of the week to try to win some elections in November.
Sure, one program can gobble up 8 cores. But could an email client? A word processor? A text editor? Sure, there may be some business applications requiring the level of parallelism you're suggseting, but presumably business software requiring vast amounts of CPU cycles aren't going to be running on your standard consumer desktop. That's what server farms are for, right?
The High Performance Computing market != the Desktop market. Those running huge simulations and using far more than 2GB of RAM are not doing so on a desktop.
So your typical desktop user is running *NIX compilers all the time? Intel is talking about PC desktops, not workstations. Heck, the last time I did "make", it was through ssh to a quad-CPU server intended for multiple people to be doing just that. People compiling large programs and doing heavy rendering and whatnot are either doing it at work with heavy non-desktop equipment, or are very much in the minority doing it at their homes.
Right. An MMO server should have 8+ cores, not the player's computer.
And advanced AI is the only reason I can see for many many cores in a home desktop, but again, this is not your average user we're talking about, but a several-years-down-the-line-gamer.
I only play games with a violence rating of 65% or higher.
Anyway, congress should really just let video games be, and let the ESRB and parents do their jobs.
Oh yeah, that aspect of it certainly didn't help. Twinking of alts was a big part of it as the server aged. But it got rather obvious that buying some materials or high-level epics was directly going towards gold sellers. Heck, just trying to ask for Runecloth in Ironforge would get you 10 different tells from people who didn't speak english well and were apparently selling hundreds of stacks of Runecloth.
But if the end is "yay, I'm alive, not dead" and the means is "oh noes, I didn't tell them they could save my life even though I was unconscious", I'd say the ends justify the means. No?
There was some of that on my server, back when I played. But certainly not enough. It didn't take long before it was simply too dangerous to go into the farmer's territory. If you tried to tag mobs before they could kill them, they'd call in their farmer friends of the other faction to start killing you over and over.
Care to explain what you're referring to? I've never had a problem with battle.net...
Back when I played WoW, the server I was on was pretty much owned by gold farmers. They drove up the prices on everything, and unfortunately a lot of players just went along with it. People would buy in-game currency with real money to pay for things in the game sold by those selling the in-game money they got from those inflated sales. A vicious circle, but I guess some players felt it was worth it.
At least 64-bit chips let us address a lot more RAM, and everybody knows that programs are gobbling up more and more RAM these days. Millions of cores aren't quite as useful, at least for the time being, for your typical home PC.
I frequently run as many as 8 programs at a time, sometimes more, but I seriously doubt each program would know what to do with its own core. With my two-CPU set-up, I find RAM to be almost the biggest limiting factor (although with 2GB, I've never actually run out). There's really no need for 8 cores until my brain is able to take multitasking to the next level, doing many many complex tasks that would gain benefit from (essentially) unlimited CPU power for each program.
They say the biggest bottleneck of any modern computer is its user...
Yes, but before anything is tested on humans (consent or no), there has to be a reasonable expectation of a result as good as or better than traditional methods. And look, if you're unconsious and bleeding in the back of an ambulance, you're not "perfectly safe" to begin with. That's why you have to weigh the potential consequences.
And here I came to watch all the firefox fanbois have to swallow their pride and admit their favorite browser had a problem. Oh well, better luck next time hax0rs! And just for the record, I'm using firefox right now and think it's far better than the alternative, it's just that I like watching people squirm.
Still, what does this say about IE, that people are now using it to infect firefox? Is IE getting that unpopular now?